BlackBerry manufacturer Research In Motion (RIM) has voiced its efforts in streamlining public sector services in the wake of the recent Budget.

Public sector spending is set to be cut by £17 billion by 2014-15 as outlined by Chancellor George Osborne.

Last month, RIM put forward its proposal to the Government ahead of the Budget detailing how BlackBerry is able to improve efficiency and help to deliver better policing, medical services and social care, by minimising the time spent travelling back to the office and maximising the amount of work that can be done on the move.

According to RIM’s Senior Manager of UK public sector sales Graham Baker, this shift would result in more time spent in valuable meetings with citizens and businesses through ‘citizen-centric delivery’.

The BlackBerry platform is the only mobile system to be approved by CESG, the information assurance arm of GCHQ. It allows developers to build secure access and data interrogation systems for public sector bodies, resulting in a low-cost, high-impact solution.

It seems that this use of technology stretches further than simple cost cutting and also helps to streamline services for the public interest.

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